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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25872	The arraignment, tryal, and condemnation of Ambrose Rookwood, for the horrid and execrable conspiracy to assassinate His Sacred Majesty King William, in order to a French invasion of this kingdom who upon full evidence was found guilty of high treason before His Majesty's justices of Oyer and Terminer, at Westminster on Tuesday the 21st of April 1696, and received sentence the day following, and was executed at Tyburn on the 29th day of the said month : in which tryal is contained all the learned arguments of the King's council and likewise the council for the prisoner, upon the new act of Parliament for regulating tryals in cases of treason.	Rookwood, Ambrose, 1664-1696, defendant.	1696 (1696)	Wing A3755; ESTC R4588	88,215	80

JVNE 8. 1696. I Do Appoint Samuel Heyrick and Isaac Cleave to Print the Tryal of Ambrose Rookwood and that no other Person Presume to Print the same J. HOLT THE Tryals of Charnock King and Keys and likewise of Sir John Friend and Sir William Parkins are all Printed and Sold by Samuel Heyrick and Isaac Cleave THE Arraignment Tryal and Condemnation OF Ambrose Rookwood For the Horrid and Execrable CONSPIRACY TO Assassinate His Sacred Majesty King WILLIAM In Order to a French INVASION of this Kingdom Who upon full Evidence was found Guilty of High Treason before His Majesty's Justices of Oyer and Terminer at Westminster on Tuesday the 21 st of April 1696. and received Sentence the day following And was Executed at Tyburn on the 29 th day of the said Month. In which Tryal is contained All the Learned ARGUMENTS of the King's Council and likewise the Council for the Prisoner upon the New Act of Parliament for Regulating Tryals in Cases of Treason LONDON Printed for Samuel Heyrick at Grays-Inn-Gate Holborn and Isaac Cleave at the Star next Serjeants-Inn-Gate in Chancery-Lane MDCXCVI Die Martis Decimo Quarto Aprilis Anno Regni Regis Willielmi Tertii Octavo Annoque Domini 1696. THE Court being sat at which were present the Lord Chief Justice Holt the Lord Chief Justice Treby Mr. Justice Nevil Mr. Justice Powell and Mr. Justice Eyres the Court proceeded in this manner Cl. of Arr. Cryer Make Proclamation Cryer Oyez Oyez Oyez All manner of Persons that have any thing more to do at this Sessions of Oyer and Terminer holden for the County of Middlesex draw near and give your Attendance God save the King Then the Grand Jury were called over and the appearances mark'd and Witnesses being Sworn in Court to give Evidence to them upon a Bill of Indictment against Alexander Knightley they in a little time after withdrew to hear the Evidence Then the Keeper of Newgate was ordered to bring his Prisoners to the Bar which he did to wit Robert Lowick Ambrose Rookwood and Charles Cranburne Who were there thus Arraigned Cl. of Arr. Robert Lowick hold up thy Hand Which he did Ambrose Rookwook hold up thy Hand Which he did Charles Cranburne hold up thy Hand Which he did You stand Indicted in the County of Middlesex by the Names of Robert Lowick of the Parish of St. Paul Covent-Garden in the County of Middlesex Gentleman Ambrose Rookwood of the same Parish Gentleman and Charles Cranburne of the same Parish and County Yeoman for that you together with one Christopher Knightley of the same Parish and County Gentleman not yet taken not having the fear of God in your hearts nor weighing the Duty of your Allegiance but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the Devil as false Traytors against the most Serene most Illustrious most Clement and most Excellent Prince our Sovereign Lord William the Third by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. your Supreme True Rightful Lawful and Undoubted Lord the cordial Love and true and due Obedience Fidelity and Allegiance which every Subject of our said Lord the King that now is towards him our said Lord the King should bear and of right ought to bear withdrawing and utterly to extinguish intending and contriving and with all your strength resolving designing and conspiring the Government of this Kingdom of England under him our said Sovereign Lord the King that now is of Right duly happily and well established altogether to subvert change and alter as also our said Lord the King to death and final destruction to put and bring and his faithful Subjects and the freemen of this Kingdom of England into intolerable and most Miserable Servitude to Lewis the French King to Subjugate and Inthral the 10th day of February in the Seventh year of the Reign of our said Sovereign Lord the King that now is and divers other days and times as well before as after at the Parish of St. Paul Covent-Garden aforesaid in the County aforesaid falsly maliciously devilishly and traiterously did compass imagine and contrive resolve design and intend our said Lord the King that now is to kill slay and murther and a miserable slaughter among the faithful Subjects of our said Lord the King throughout this whole Kingdom of England to make and cause and the same your most impious wicked and devilish Treasons and Traiterous compassings contrivances and purposes aforesaid to fulfil perfect and bring to effect you the said Robert Lowick Ambrose Rookwood and Charles Cranburne together with the said Christopher Knightley and very many other false Traytors to the Jurors unknown afterwards to wit the same 10th day of February in the year abovesaid at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid and divers other days and times as well before as after there and elsewhere in the same County falsly maliciously advisedly secretly and traiterously and with force and arms did meet together propose treat consult consent and agree him our said Lord the King that now is by lying in wait and guile to Assassinate Kill and Murther and that execrable horrid and detestable Assassination and Killing the sooner to execute and perpetrate afterwards to wit the same day and year and divers other days and times at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid traiterously did treat propose and consult of the ways manner and means and the time and place where when how and in what manner our said Lord the King so by lying in wait the more easily you might Kill and did consent agree and assent that forty Horsemen of thereabouts whereof the said Christopher Knightley you the said Robert Lowick Ambrose Rookwood and Charles Cranburne should be four and every one of you traiterously took upon himself to be one with Guns Muskets and Pistols charged with Gunpowder and leaden Bullets and with Swords Rapiers and other Weapons being Armed should lie in wait and lie in Ambush our said Lord the King in his Coach being when he should go abroad to Invade and that a certain and competent number of those men so Armed should set upon the Guards of our said Lord the King then attending him and being with him and should fight with them and overcome them whilst others of the same men so Armed our said Lord the King should Assassinate Slay Kill and Murther and you the said Robert Lowick Ambrose Rookwood and Charles Cranburne together with the said Christopher Knightley the Treason and all the Trayterous Intentions Designs and Contrivances aforesaid to execute perform fulfil and bring to effect afterwards to wit the aforesaid Tenth day of February in the Seventh year abovesaid at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid divers Horses and very many Arms Guns Pistols Swords Rapiers and other Weapons Ammunition and Warlike things and Military Instruments falsly maliciously secretly and traiterously did obtain buy gather together and procure and cause to be bought obtained

gathered together and procured with that Intention then in and about the detestable horrid and execrable Assassination Killing and Murder of our said Lord the King that now is as aforesaid to be used employ'd and bestow'd and the same Premises the more safely and certainly to execute do and perform the aforesaid Christopher Knightley with one Edward King late of High-Treason in contriving and conspiring the death of our said Lord the King that now is duly Convicted and Attainted by the consent and agreement of divers of the Traytors and Conspirators aforesaid the said 10 th day of February in the 7 th year abovesaid went and came to the place proposed where such intended Assassination Killing and Murder of our said Lord the King by lying in wait should be done performed and committed to see view and observe the convenience and fitness of the same Place for such lying in wait Assassination and Killing there to be done performed and committed And that Place being so viewed and observed afterwards to wit the same day and year their Observations thereof to several of the said Traytors and Conspirators did relate and impart to wit at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid And you the aforesaid Charles Cranburne the same day and year there in order the same execrable horrid and detestable Assassination and Killing of our said Lord the King by the Traytors and Conspirators aforesaid the more readily and boldly to execute perform and commit advisedly knowingly and traiterously did bring and carry between divers of those Traytors and Conspirators forward and backward from some to others of them a List of the Names of divers men of those who were designed and appointed our said Lord the King so as aforesaid by lying in wait to kill and murder against the Duty of the Allegiance of the said Christopher Knightley you the said Robert Lowick Ambrose Rookwood and Charles Cranburne and against the Peace of our said Lord the King that now is his Crown and Dignity and against the form of the Statute in such case made and provided How say'st thou Robert Lowick Art thou Guilty of the High-Treason whereof thou standest Indicted or Not Guilty Lowick Not Guilty Cl. of Arr. Culprit How wilt thou be Try'd Lowick By God and my Countrey Cl. of Arr. God send thee good deliverance How say'st thou Ambrose Rookwood Art thou Guilty of the High-Treason whereof thou standest Indicted or Not Guilty Rookwood Not Guilty Cl. of Arr. Culprit How wilt thou be Try'd Rookwood By God and my Countrey Cl. of Arr. God send thee good deliverance Charles Cranburn How say'st thou Art thou Guilty of the High-Treason whereof thou standest Indicted or Not Guilty Cranburne Not Guilty Cl. of Arr. Culprit How wilt thou be Try'd Cranburne By God and my Countrey Cl. of Arr. God send thee good deliverance Cranburne My Lord I desire your Lordship would grant me the favour for my Wife to come to me in private and that I may have Pen Ink and Paper L. C. J. Holt. Pen Ink and Paper you must have but as to the other we must consider of it Keeper of Newgate What has been usual in those cases Keeper My Lord we let no body come to them in private but their Council L. C. J. Holt. That 's provided for by the Act that allows them Council But has it been usual heretofore to permit any body else to be with them in private the Wife or any other Relations Keeper It has not L. C. J. Holt. It is very dangerous if it should therefore let him have his Wife come to him in the presence of the Keeper Cranburne And Pen Ink and Paper I hope my Lord L. C. J. Holt. Yes yes that you shall have Cranburne You don't deny me my Lord that I may have my Wife come to me L. C. J. Holt. No we don't but she must not be in private with you for fear of an Escape Rockwood I beg the same favour my Lord to have my Brother come to me and Pen Ink and Paper L. C. J. Holt. You shall have the same Rule but you Keeper must have especial Care who you do permit to come to them and be private with them for it is still at your Peril if any ill Accident happens by your Indulgence to them And yet it is fit they should have all that is reasonable for preparing for their Defence at their Trials Lowick And I desire my Lord I may have my Sister come to me and the liberty of her being in private with me L. C. J. Holt. Your Friends may come to you at seasonable times in the presence of the Keeper you shall have any thing that is reasonable but the Safety of the Government must be look'd after Therefore Keeper of Newgate take back your Prisoners and bring them here this day sevennight at 7 a Clock in the Morning without any other Order They staid at the Bar about Half an hour the Judges consulting among themselves about the Precept for the Petty Jury upon a late Act of Parliament which has appointed six days for the Jury to be summon'd before they appear to try any Cause and upon the last Act in Regulating Tryals in Cases of High-Treason which requires that the Prisoner shall have a Copy of the Pannel of the Jury duly return'd at least two days before his Tryal Then the Prisoners were carried away and the Grand Jury withdrew to consider of the Evidence against Knightley and in a Quarter of an Hour came back and being called over delivered in a Bill to the Court. Cl. of Arr. Gentlemen you are content the Court shall amend Matter of Form or False Latin in this Indictment without altering any Matter of Substance without your Privity Jury Yes Cl. of Arr. Then Gentlemen you may go for this time and you are to take notice if there be occasion at any time to call you together you shall have sufficient warning given you beforehand This is Billa Vera against Alexander Knightley for High-Treason Then the Judges resumed the Debate among themselves and at last resolved that there should go three several Venires for the Petty-Jury returnable this day sevennight one to try between the King and Robert Lowick the second to try between the King and Ambrose Rookwood and a third between the King and Charles Cranburn because though the Indictment be against them jointly yet it was a several Offence in every one of them and they might sever in their Challenges and that would be troublesome and therefore it was thought best to sever them in their Tryals and therefore the Court adjourned for an Hour or something more while the Precepts for the Jury were preparing and according to the Adjournment met and signed and sealed the Precepts and then Adjourned the Sessions of Oyer and Terminer until this day sevennight at seven in the Morning Die Martis Vicesimo primo Aprilis Anno Regni Regis Willielmi Tertii Octavo Annoque Dom. 1696. 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